oh, it gets even worse
Here are the things people complain about in their hate comments:
- My Glasses: "I bet you don't even need those glasses" is the most common—and most bewildering—form of the comment.
- My American Apparel clothing: "Fuck off back to American Apparel" was one I deleted just two hours ago.
- My hair: it is often simply described as "horrible" and "ugly". It is just as often described as "stupid".
- My voice: it is often described as "dumb", "stupid", or "gay".
- My mustache: it was described as a "hipster mustache", a "Dirty Sanchez" (what an idiotic euphemism), a "pube stache", a "molestache", or simply "gay".
- My pink sweater.
The fact that he had to write an article about this is even more faggy. Just stop giving a fuck about what people think about you.
It's bad enough that if it bothers you. But trying to prove how much you DON'T care by writing an entire article about it is the writer's equivalent of a comb-over.
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"In his world, that's enough of an answer. He's not the miniature accidental internet celebrity troll-jerk with a legion of the devoted hateful. Of course he doesn't know how it feels."
I have been on that side tho, I HAVE had my inbox crammed with emails full of random people telling me to die in a fire. And not in some kind of e-bullying thing in high school, but because I ran a very popular fan website. Of course it bothered me... when I was fucking 18 years old. I got over it because, seriously, it IS just the internet. Stop letting it affect you. Now if you have some kind of depression or other diagnosed mental disease... fine, but even then, talk to your therapist, not spend the next two years debating over writing that article.
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" I have started and stopped writing a version of this article a dozen times over the past two years."
Jesus, this is worse than that one guy who got teased in high school, waited 15 years to then call in a Radio Show to prank-call his high school tormentor, despite the fact that both were well into their 30's. Get the fuck over it!
I mean, not even in a so-called "toxic masculinity" way of "man up, nancy!", but, seriously, be a fucking adult!
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OMG IT KEEPS FUCKING GOING
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Well it's good that the top comment is someone basically telling him the same thing:
>> "Tim - Have you ever stopped to consider the possibility it is in fact you, who are the ignorant jerks? Assholes are going to be assholes. It is the well-balanced individuals in this society that are able to adequately cope with those assholes. I know plenty of KIDS who love nerdy crap and probably catch an unbelievable amount of heat for it, but they don't care, because they love what they love."
Jesus fuck, exactly; when you have CHILDREN who are more well-adjusted than you are... I think your problems are WAAAAAY deeper than society's opinion of the color pink.
I therefore sincerely hope that, in the nearly 10 years since this diatribe was posted on Kotaku (and therefore reinforcing the idea that Gawker Media was a mistake), Tim Rogers grew a spine. But I have my doubts.
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I don't think I have the courage to sit through a SECOND article of his like this.